Author: williamfnolan

After being charged with murder, Perry Mason creator Erle Stanley Gardner calls on Raymond Chandler and Dashiel Hammett to help him prove his innocence and uncover the real killer, in a mystery set against the backdrop of Hollywood’s Golden Age.

Mystery fiction’s legendary trio, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Erle Stanley Gardner, are back as amateur detectives, following their dynamic, critically acclaimed debut in The Black Mask Murders. Here they interact in a complex, colorful, and ultimately dangerous adventure, a richly textured thriller that also celebrates the joys of love and marriage between Chandler and his … exceptional wife, Cissy. As narrated by Chandler, the adventure begins in East Los Angeles with the discovery of what is apparently the ritual suicide of Cissy’s former husband in a Chinese cemetery. Action moves swiftly from the coastal splendors of the Hearst castle,…